1. Titus Billings was an early convert to the Latter Day Saint movement.
19 Facts About Titus Billings
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Titus Billings served in several positions in the church and was a contemporary of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
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Titus Billings participated in the Battle of Crooked River and was a colonel in the Nauvoo Legion.
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Titus Billings participated in the Mormon migration as a Captain of Fifty in the second company and was a notable settler of Manti, Utah.
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Titus Billings was the son of Ebeneezer Billings and Ester Joyce.
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Titus Billings was a stonemason, carpenter, and musician, while Diantha designed the original temple garments.
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The Billings family moved back to Missouri in 1837, and Titus was sustained as Second Counselor to Bishop Edward Partridge at the General Conference of the church in Far West on August 1,1837.
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Titus Billings served in this calling until the death of Bishop Partridge in 1840.
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On October 25,1838, Titus Billings participated in the Battle of Crooked River, and as part of the aftermath was forced to flee from his home to the Des Moines River.
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Titus Billings signed a petition documenting the losses of property during this time which were never recovered.
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In February 1841, the Nauvoo Legion was organized and Titus Billings was made a captain.
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In 1848, Billings was appointed as a Captain of Fifty in Heber C Kimball's company of pioneers.
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Titus Billings arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in the winter of 1848.
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In February 1849, Titus Billings was called to the Greater Salt Lake City Stake High Council.
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Titus Billings lived in Manti and was a member of the stake presidency there in 1851.
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Titus Billings purchased a young native girl and gave her to Diantha to raise as a daughter.
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On January 20,1854, Titus Billings married Mary Ann Tuttle as his second wife under the practice of polygamy.
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Titus Billings bore four children with Titus before they too divorced.
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Titus Billings is buried in the Provo Cemetery with his first wife Diantha.